About the book: 2024 / The novel "Strange Bravorosh" was shortlisted for the international literary award N.V. Gogol Poltorak S.N. Strange Bravorosh. St. Petersburg: Poltorak Publishing House, 2020. – 356 pp. The novel by the famous St. Petersburg historian and author of several detective stories Sergei Poltorak is dedicated to the events of the late 1950s – early 2010s. The main character of the work, Gleb Bravorosh, comes from a historical region of Ukraine forgotten by many, once called New Serbia. Due to life circumstances, over the years he meets famous people, including composer V.P. Solovyov-Sedoy, future President of Russia V.V. Putin, writer D.A. Granin, Nobel Prize laureate Zh.I. Alferov and other famous people - athletes, scientists, politicians, military men. Unexpected turns of fate, trials and failures taught the main character to value important life values.